Across
- 4. the transitional period between childhood and adulthood that begins with puberty and ends when the individual has acquired adult compentencies and responsibilities
- 6. to most developmentalists, positive, negative, and neutral changes in the mature organism
- 8. an openness of the brain cells to positive and negative environmental influence
- 11. the group of individuals chosen to be the subjects of a study
- 13. a group of people born at the same time
- 14. the belief that one's own cultural or ethnic group is superior to others
- 17. a set of concepts and propositions designed to organize, describe, and explain a set of observations
- 19. in Bronfenbrenner's bioecological approach, the immediate settings in wich the person functions
- 21. a relatively permanent change in behavior that results from a person's experiences or practice
- 23. developmental changes that are biologically programmed by genes rather than caused by learning, injury, illness, or some other life experience
- 24. systematic changes in the individual occurring between conception and death
- 25. a research strategy in which the investigator manipulates or alters some aspect of a person's environment to measure its effect on the individual's behavior or development
Down
- 1. a system of meanings shared by a population of people and transmitted from one generation to the next
- 2. a well-defined group that a researcher who studies a sample of individuals is interested in drawing conclusions about
- 3. the brain's remarkable ability to change in response to experience throughout the lifespan
- 5. a person's classification in or affiliation with a group based on common heritage or traditions
- 7. in Bronfenbrenner's bioecological approach, the larger cultural or subcultural context of development
- 9. in Bronfenbrenner's bioecological approach, settings not experienced directly by individuals still influence their development
- 10. in Bronfenbrenner's bioecological approach, the system that captures the way changes in environmental systems, such as social trends and life events, are patterend over a person's lifetime
- 12. the study of aging and old age
- 15. in Bronfenbrenner's bioecological approach, interrelationships between microsystems or immediate environments
- 16. events or conditions outside the person that are presumed to influence and be influenced by the individual
- 18. a theoretical prediction about what will hold true if we observe a phenomenon
- 20. the physical changes that occur from conception to maturity
- 22. functional units of heredity made up of DNA and transmitted from generation to generation